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Chicho on 04 June 2025
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JEMC said:

This Russian fishing sim is bizarrely popular on Steam but players hate the monetisation, and to be fair it has a $2000 microtransaction
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/this-russian-fishing-sim-is-bizarrely-popular-on-steam-but-players-cant-decide-if-they-love-or-hate-it-perhaps-because-of-the-usd2000-microtransaction/
I hadn't heard of Russian Fishing 4 until PCG's Wes Fenlon noticed it was weirdly popular on Steam. The game's been available since 2018, launching on Steam in November 2021, and since then it's steadily built a considerable audience over time: per SteamDB's three year charts, it was pulling in around 7,000 concurrent players after launch, and three years later averages just over 20,000 concurrent players every day.

$2000 dollars is not a microtransaction. Micro means small. 2k is a big transation not micro.